Solving the Riddle of Being Human

What if you could use Virtual Reality to hack your mindfulness routine? Sah is joined by Sukey and Beth Novogratz — co-founders of Maloka, a VR and mobile game platform for Mindfulness and meditation — to talk about their new partnership, the future of meditation, and why VR is a tool everyone should take advantage of!  They dish about…1. The benefits of having a meditation buddy, a partner on the...

Ever wonder how your childhood traumas affect your adult life? The insecurities, negative tendencies, deep seeded anger, your scarcity mindset, never feeling enough, and our day-to-day struggles. Sah and Fritzi Horstman, Compassion Prison Project’s founder, discuss the vast and complex influence of traumatic childhood experiences in our daily lives. And, how dehumanizing our prison system is, the...

Ever feel like you’re “losing it” after a major life crisis or struggle? Sah and author Valerie Gangas connect about her book “In Deep Shift: Riding the Waves of Change to Find Peace, Fulfillment, and Freedom.” Listen in to learn about their personal journeys through their own dark nights of the soul, how vital falling apart can be for the expansion of human consciousness, and how you can translat...

What if you had a wise and loving older sibling you could turn to with spiritual questions? This week on The Spiritually Sassy Show, Sah and his sister, Moun D’Simone, combine their wisdom to answer questions directly from the Spiritually Sassy Show audience. This episode is full of practical advice and tools to bring you inspiration, hope, and healing! Tune in to hear them discuss…Spiritual hygie...

Ever wondered how to translate your trauma into growth? Sah and military Psychologist, Dr. Erin McKee, dive into the difference between post-traumatic stress disorder and post-traumatic growth, the intersections of Buddhist psychology and trauma recovery, and the complexities of being a female psychologist in the military. Tune in to hear them chat about:1. Approaching psychological care for the m...

What if you could learn to feel your feelings without trying to fix or change them? Sah and integral psychologist Natasha Nair get deep into somatic approaches to healing and the freedom we can find by learning to be in our feelings. Tune in to hear them chat about:The freedom in learning to be with your feelings without trying to fix or change them. The magic of how somatic healing can teach us t...

Struggling to overcome a dogmatic religious upbringing and find your way back into spirituality? This week, Sah and spiritual recovery coach Kevin Garcia get into the dangers of bad theology and how spirituality fits into modern belief systems, religious dogma, and more. Tune in to hear them chat about:Theology vs Spirituality: What's the difference? How “Bad Theology" affects people, an...

This week, Sah welcomes Brandon Beachum, an entrepreneur, thought leader, author, and host of The Positive Head Podcast, as well as the late-night style talk show, Optimystic. Today, Brandon’s primary focus is on helping people shift their perspectives to innerstand the “ultimate nature of reality’’ and create more of what they want to see in their world! In an effort to do so, Brandon's firs...

This week, Sah welcomes Jai Dev Singh, world-renowned Kundalini yoga teacher, Ayurvedic specialist, and founder of Life-Force Academy (LFA), a yoga, meditation, and wellness company that helps people connect to their inner confidence and genuine purpose. In this episode, Sah and Jai Dev discuss...the impermanence of life and how fighting it leads to miseryembracing all of life as expressions of bl...

This week, Sah welcomes Dr. Jennifer Mullan (she/her), a Clinical Psychologist and published author, currently serving communities as a consultant for behavioral and mental health organizations and schools. Dr. Mullan is an ancestral wound worker and CEO and founder of Decolonizing Therapy, LLC. — seeking to unpack the oppressive legacy of modern mental health practices and reconnect practitioners...

This week, Sah welcomes Christena Cleveland, Ph. D., a social psychologist, public theologian, author, and activist. She is the founder and director of the Center for Justice + Renewal as well as its sister organization, Sacred Folk, which creates resources to stimulate people’s spiritual imaginations and support their journeys toward liberation. An award-winning researcher and former professor at...

This week, Sah welcomes Patita Pavan Das, founder of the Hanuman Project which is known for creating devotional and musical spaces that are full of joy, powerful, and accessible. The Hanuman Project is a grassroots and cutting-edge devotional music ensemble specializing in sacred mantra chant. They weave together a vibrant blend of mantra, bhajan, and South American medicine music. This group is d...

This week, Sah welcomes Jessie Inchauspé: badass biochemist, author of The Glucose Revolution, and creator of the Glucose Goddess movement. Jessie shares cutting-edge science with people to help them balance their blood sugar levels and feel amazing. Find Jessie on IG @glucosegoddess. In this episode, Sah and Jessie discuss..."the code" that Jessie has cracked regarding behavior improvem...

This week, Sah welcomes Deborah Eden Tull. She is the founder of Mindful Living Revolution, a Zen meditation, and engaged dharma teacher, author, spiritual activist, and sustainability educator. She emphasizes the connection between personal awakening and collective transformation. Eden spent seven years training as a Buddhist monk at a silent Zen monastery. Her teaching style is grounded in mindf...

This week, Sah welcomes author Mary Firestone, who has an MA in clinical psychology and is on a mission to let others know they are not alone + there is light on the other side of the darkness of PTSD. Her new book, Trusting the Dawn, is the story of Mary’s survival and transformation through healing. Mary’s transformative epiphanies led her and her sister Lucy to launch their company, Firestone S...

This week, Sah welcomes Tahir Qawwal, who, at fifteen, left his home for the Himalayas to spend the rest of his teens living as a lonely dervish, practicing the yogic path and searching for enlightenment through the purity of sound and pitch. Later, he immersed himself in the sacred Sufi teachings of the past millennium and began his formal training in Indian Classical music (Hindustani) and Qawwa...

This week, Sah welcomes 3 recently-certified Somatic Activated Healing coaches, Thais Kraus, Lena Moxon, & Danielle Be. As a Lifestyle Transformation Mentor Teacher, Thais helps women to awaken to how divine & powerful they are to transform all aspects of their lives that are longing for change.https://natureintendedwellness.com/Lena is a modern mystic infusing spirituality, embodiment, &a...

This week, Sah welcomes Parashakti. Over the last 20 years, Parashakti has developed the Seven Foundations and the Dance of Liberation™ as maps for her spiritual practice, living and breathing these foundations in daily ritual. DOL'S mission is to help people experience ecstasy – without taking it. Parashakti has successfully adapted the teachings of the DOL as a modality for recovery from ad...

This week, Sah welcomes Gabrielle Bernstein, who has been transforming lives—including her own, for over fifteen years. The #1 N​ew York Times bestselling author has penned eight books including her first Audible Original, ​You Are the Guru. ​In her weekly​ podcast, ​Dear Gabby,​ she offers up real-time coaching, straight talk and conversations about personal growth and spirituality with unique an...

This week, Sah welcomes Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, a globally recognized spiritual leader, humanitarian, and peacemaker. Gurudev has created trauma relief and meditation programs for at-risk youth, war veterans, prisoners, and survivors of disaster. He has touched the lives of more than 450 million people around the world (including heads of state and world leaders) by teaching powerful breathw...

This week, Sah welcomes Lyle Maxson, a pioneer of Transformative Entertainment whose immersive design agency, The Courtiers, and passion for biohacking led to co-founding Andromeda Entertainment, a VR publisher bringing to market "Games for Good."Lyle’s next horizon is GeniusX, a VR education platform for creating a metaverse that "upgrades the real world avatar that is you" wi...

This week, Sah welcomes David Harshada Wagner, a master meditation instructor, author, artist, dad, and wisdom teacher with more than 25 years of teaching experience. Classically trained in the wisdom traditions of Yoga, Bhakti, Vedanta, and Tantra, his teachings come from his decades of working with people helping them learn to live more fulfilling, soul-centered, purpose driven lives. In this ep...

This week, Sah welcomes Rosie Acosta, who has studied yoga and mindfulness for more than 20 years and taught for over a decade. She hosts a weekly conversational wellness podcast called, Radically Loved. A first-gen Mexican-American, Rosie’s mission is to help others overcome adversity and experience radical love. In this episode, Sah and Rosie discuss...struggling to accept the paradox in life, a...

This week, Sah welcomes Mirabai Starr, an award-winning author of creative non-fiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature. She taught Philosophy and World Religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for 20 years and now teaches and speaks internationally on contemplative practice and inter-spiritual dialog. As a certified bereavement counselor, Mirabai helps mourners harness the...

This week, Sah brings you a solocast about MIRACLES.Miracles can happen anytime, in any place... even where and when you least expect them. But they require our action, participation, and support to bring them to fruition. In this episode, Sah discusses...The life-changing miracle he received on a recent family trip to BrazilThe ways we perpetuate our own suffering, sometimes more than anyone else...